Medicine For the Future
The Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery Research Group builds upon expertise within the School of Pharmacy and the College of Science as a whole. Our work covers pre-clinical aspects of the drug discovery and development pipeline from the identification of novel drug targets, the design of new and improved drugs and antibiotics, to the development of improved methods of delivery.
Our aims are to:
- Identify new drug targets
- Design and discover new drugs
- Develop innovative approaches for drug delivery
Our multidisciplinary group includes organic chemists, structural biologists, pharmacologists, and pharmaceutical scientists who work collaboratively to utilise state of the art technologies and methodologies. We have strong links with the pharmaceutical industry and an important presence in the Lincoln Institute of Health (LIH). Our academic researchers also collaborate with the University of Lincoln's Antimicrobial Research Group, CaHRU, the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, and the Schools of Engineering, Chemistry, and Life Sciences.
Group Members
| Research Staff | Title |
|---|---|
| Professor Terence Herbert | Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology- Diabetes, beta cell biology, cell signalling, pharmacology, gene expression |
| Dr Taghread Hudaib | Senior Lecturer in Pharmacognosy/Phytochemical bioactivity - Natural anti-ageing, antimicrobial, and contraceptive bio-activity of plant extracts |
| Dr Lorna Lancaster | Senior Lecturer – Alternative Antibiotics and Vaccines |
| Dr Richard Ngomba | Senior Lecturer – Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Neuroscience; Pharmacy Practice |
| Dr Emma Wright | Senior Lecturer – Biomaterials, Materials science, Materials characterisation, Rheology, Polymers, Wound Healing, Drug delivery |
| Dr Christy Hunter | Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics |
